[jira] [Commented] (CXF-6833) support RxJava Observable in return values as a more composeable alternative to Future

["Sergey Beryozkin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sergey Beryozkin commented on CXF-6833:
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Moved the providers to rt/rs/extension/providers for now:
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/commit/447f2dac

I guess a dedicated module can be created once we have more RxJava related material

> support RxJava Observable<T> in return values as a more composeable alternative to Future<T>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CXF-6833
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-6833
>             Project: CXF
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: JAX-RS
>            Reporter: james strachan
>             Fix For: 3.2.0
>
>
> when invoking multiple REST services concurrently in a microservice kinda world it can be really helpful to use RxJava's Observable<T> so that you can easily compose concurrent asynchronous requests together.
> e.g. see this blog:
> http://joluet.github.io/blog/2014/07/07/rxjava-retrofit/
> Its basically about using RxJava's Observable<T> as the result type; which is a little like a Future<T> but can handle streams of values and is composable.
> It would be great to do this both on the client and server side; as a server may invoke multiple asynchronous back ends and return a composition of results etc.
> e.g.
> {code}
> @GET("/session.json")
> Observable<LoginResponse> login();
> @GET("/user.json")
> Observable<UserState> getUserState();
> {code}
> you can then use the Observable<T> composition methods to join / flatMap  to compose multiple requests across different microservice invocations together with timeouts etc e.g. to compose the latest from 2 calls:
> {code}
> Observable.combineLatest(api.fetchUserProfile(), api.getUserState(),
> (user, userStatus) -> new Pair<>(user, userStatus));
> {code}
> and you're done! There's support for timeouts and other kinds of composition mechanisms too.



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